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Definition of Colubrine
1. a. like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.
Definition of Colubrine
1. Adjective. Snake-like, pertaining to snakes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colubrine
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colubrine
Literary usage of Colubrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"On the Physiological Action and Antidotes of colubrine and Viperine Snake Venoms.
... The Indian colubrine snakes other than the Cobra have been little ..."
2. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"Other colubrine Snakes.—Bungarus fasciatus, or the Banded Krait, acts similarly
to the cobra poison ; but since its activity is destroyed by heating from ..."
3. Storia Della Guerre Civili Di Francia by Enrico Caterion Davila (1802)
"e in essa si piantarono sette colubrine che battevano le difese del castello, e
sei cannoni che per- ..."
4. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1887)
"Snakes may be divided into two main groups (1) the colubrine (2) the Viperine.
The colubrine snakes have the head somewhat elongated and oblong, ..."
5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"The two families to which poisonous snakes belong are the colubrine snakes (Colubridae)
... The only poisonous colubrine snakes in the United States are the ..."
6. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter (1857)
"The species belonging to this order may be grouped under two principal sections,
as colubrine and Viperine Snakes. The colubrine Snakes are those in which ..."
7. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"The species belonging to this order may be grouped under two principal sections,
as colubrine and Viperine Snakes. The colubrine Snakes are those in which ..."
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